General Notes

Giles Slocombe emigrated to America after his mother's death.  He was the sole executor of her will dated November 21, 1642 and proved January 26,1643 in Old Cleeve, Somerset, England.  His father had died earlier, so he assumed full adult responsibility at an early age.  He married when he was eighteen and had his first child a year later.  Upon immigration he first went to Taunton, Plymouth Colony  where Anthony Slocum (possibly his uncle) lived.  He owned land rights that he later sold in 1675.  He then removed to Rhode Island.
Gyles Slocum paid three pounds for thirty acres of land in Portsmouth, Rhode Island September 4, 1648 to William Baulston, Treasurer, and entered upon record by Richard Bulgar, recorder for ye towne of Portsmouth.  In 1655 he was recorded as a freeman of Portsmouth as shown by "the Roule of ye Freemen of ye Colonie of everie Towne".
Giles owned "ase, cowes, oxen, sheepe, horskine" and "the earemarke of Gyles Slocom is a Crope in the right eare anda hapeny under the same one the lime eare, with a slitt in the left eare and a hapeny under of thirty years standing and is entered upon record this 25th of April 1668 by me, Richard Bulger, towneclerk".
Giles and Joan separated from the First Baptist Church of Newport, Rhode Island in 1673 when they went to the Quakers-Society of Friends. He deeded land for a meeting house in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

English Origins of New England Families, Vol 2
Etymology of the Surnames Slocomb, Slocumb, and Slocum
Materials Toward a Hist of the Bapt. Vol 1, page 175, Morgan Edwards

First Settlers of the Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, Olde EastNew Jersey
O.E. Monnette, Vol I, page 215
5-23-1667 Robert Carr to Giles Slocum, in Nevasinck, 1 share Arunson and Petapeck
2-28-1670 John Wood to Giles Slocum, in Nerwetacunck near New York, all his share
4-1-1672 Thomas Lawton to Giles Slocum, in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, 2 whole shares in Potapeck and gift lands
1676 Giles Slocum to John Slocum, in Nevasinck, 1 share Arunson and Petapeck
11-2-1676 Giles Slocum to John Slocum, in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, one share in Potapeck
11-2-1676 Giles Slocum to Peter Parker, in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, 1/4 share in Potapeck
11-2-1676 Giles Slocum to Joanna Mott, dau, in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, 1/4 share in Potapeck